stealing something i wrote

i posted this as a comment to allan's blog, and now i'm stealing it back. i've been thinking of the vagaries of life, and my off the cuff comment keeps coming back. so allan, i'm going to borrow my comment back. thanks

"when we were children, time crawled so slowly that we measured it in summer vacations. then as we grew older, we discovered months, weeks, days, minutes, and seconds. what we take for granted to be our forever can be cut off with no warning, and then time stands still"

not morbid in intent, simply an observation. live your days as though they were your last, and never ever forget to say i love you to the ones in your life every day. you may never get another chance.


my wife's aunt/cousin (it gets very confusing) had a headache, so her husband took her to the hospital. gone. after 56 years of marriage, he's alone. sorry hubert, we'll all miss josie.